Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:12:53PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:17:14PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:13:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Just out of interest - how many legacy apps are broken by this? I assume 
> > > it's a non-zero number, but wouldn't mind to be happily surprised.
> > 
> > based on execshield in FC1.. about zero.
> 
> 	Doesn't Sun's JDK break here?

nope.
It broke with 4g/4g because it thought pointers in the upper 1Gb of address
space were errors, but it doesn't break with execshield.

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